While there are those who obstinately insist on building walls to divide people and societies, culture remains firm in showing the union between peoples and valuing artists for their work regardless of their place of origin. The film industry has...
St Hugh’s High School in Kingston celebrated Breast Cancer Awareness Month through commemorating October 11 as Pink and Crocs Day. To help build awareness among the students, a former student and breast cancer survivor, Christene King, was invited...
Graduate students of The Mico University College launched their initiative for children with special needs in education. On November 18, three graduate students from the Special Education Department – Joan Phillips-Bennett, Jacqueline Archibald,...
An immersive sensory experience of art unlike anything you’ve encountered before is the latest innovation in the art world. On October 1 in Paris, I visited Atelier des Lumières, or the Studio of Lights, a digital art museum which features the work...
As part of a series of events being staged around world to celebrate the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism, which is fifth-largest religion in the world, the High Commission of India joined hands with the Indian...
The title Confronting Global Climate Change: Experiments and Applications in the Tropics is an summation of research documented and as seen and presented by Professor Mark Angling Harris, a senior author of approximately 30 research articles....
For Tiffany Davis, life has taken unexpected turns that she continues to navigate with a fierce determination to succeed. The mother of two describes herself as highly motivated and self-driven, traits undoubtedly underpinning her latest...
Book: Preke Town Author: Gary O. Thompson Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD Gary O. Thompson’s Preke Town bridges generations while calling for the rebirth of traditions. Thompson assembles four families in a new environment, a place bedevilled by the...
AP: Exceptionally high tidal waters surged through Venice prompted the mayor to close St Mark’s Square and call for more donations for repairs just three days after the Italian lagoon city suffered its worst flooding in 50 years. The high tide...
Jamaica, the Caribbean, and Latin America can be described as multi-ethnic and multicultural spaces with various retentions of the original groups of people who first inhabited the areas. Between 1837 and 1867, over 11,000 free Africans arrived in...
It is argued that there are only two forces in this world: good and evil. We encounter this dichotomy throughout our lives, sometimes going through bad experiences in order to achieve good results. Parents will administer corporal punishment (...
United States Ambassador Donald Tapia recently led the official handover ceremonies of mural paintings within the communities of Rose Town and Standpipe, St Andrew. These murals have been created by partnership between the US Embassy’s Public...
The Last Student of Barrington Watson, which opened recently at the Gene Pearson Gallery, features works by Sebastian Elliott, showcasing over 20 original oil paintings that focus on the artist’s journey and the influence of his former teacher and...
Bad All she ever heard was that she was too bad From age ten she had her first man I think his name was Teddy or was it Sam All I know at age thirteen she got pregnant for her first man At age sixteen another pregnancy and a third one for Sam...
Published:Sunday | November 10, 2019 | 12:00 AMRasbert Turner
It was almost a gift that caused Fiona Gordon to become a successful artisan using thread, needles, energy to work. “I have learnt this art from my mother, who usually sews for a living. I would watch her sew...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP): The 1953 painting by Rafael Tufiño Figueroa features his mother with a red scarf on her head, a determined look on her face, and heavy expression lines, a depiction of a working-class woman that broke from conventional...
The Edge Her knees gave out, Her hair fetched up fire. Did you hear her silent shout? Storm enraged the sky Crying darkness against grey ire. Her eyes lulled every tear Her heart denied every sheer. She could fall off A step off the cliff She...
TOKYO, Japan: Tokyo Skytree Town, home to Japan’s tallest tower, is working to increase the greenery in its vicinity by planting a number of trees and flowers. The aim, according to the management of Tokyo Skytree, is to visually integrate the...
It is rare to come across prophets who are equally revered by the people of different religions, social milieu, and ethnicities. Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, is one of them. He was born in 1469 in the erstwhile Punjab province of India....
Several local and international experts in instructional technology will be among the presenters at an upcoming symposium to be hosted by the Distance Education Centre at Northern Caribbean University (NCU) under the theme ‘Distance Learning: The...
Marketing professional Amashika Lorne has launched a Jamaica-themed colouring book, which, according her, provides much more and has an objective to aid in the transmission of the island’s intangible culture of oral traditions intergenerationally...
